Congrats Bryce Lewis and Sophie Haas for taking home the top prize for their essays on indulgence! We look forward to posting their works in the upcoming weeks.
Loreli's launch party + essay awards ceremony was a drunken good time, as can be corroborated by all the various media posted below. First, there was the awards, with hats off to our six judges, three honorable mentions, and two top-prize winners. Many of the submissions will go up on the Read section over the next few weeks. Click and listen for a slightly inebriated awards ceremony/brief reading of winners' excerpts to an overly sober audience:
But not to worry, people got on their horses, one shot at a time.
And pretty soon the BEAST was unleashed. (Seriously who invited this broad?)
And how can we forget, the schmaltzy poems submitted to our DRUNK POETRY BOX throughout the night. See Dec 8th's Read page for some of the submissions.
"I went to the worst kind of bar hoping to get killed. instead I just got drunk again." - name that poet